SAP Unveils Revolutionary Business AI Platform with Major Partner Integrations

SAP Unveils Revolutionary Business AI Platform with Major Partner Integrations

SAP has announced groundbreaking artificial intelligence advancements at their 2025 Sapphire conference, positioning their Joule AI assistant as the new enterprise user interface. The company now serves 34,000 customers with over 230 AI scenarios and plans to reach 400 scenarios by year-end.

Joule Transforms Into Universal AI Interface

SAP's flagship AI copilot, Joule, is expanding beyond SAP systems through a partnership with WalkMe. This integration allows Joule to operate across any application, giving it "eyes, legs, and arms" to see what users see and provide contextual assistance everywhere.

Key capabilities include:

• Natural language interaction across web, mobile, and multiple languages
• Proactive recommendations and task completion notifications
• Custom skill creation for repetitive tasks like data entry and purchase orders

Strategic Partnership with Perplexity Enhances Search

Through collaboration with Perplexity, an AI-powered answer engine, SAP is combining internal business data with real-world insights. This partnership enables Joule to seamlessly blend structured enterprise data with unstructured web information, delivering intelligent answers in real-time.

Joule Agents Automate Complex Business Processes

The new Joule Agents can reason and coordinate to execute multi-step workflows autonomously. Examples include:

• Environmental health and safety agents that assess chemical storage and staff qualifications
• Finance accruals agents that reduce manual work by 90% during financial close
• Safety and compliance agents for manufacturing environments

Major Technology Partnerships Drive Innovation

NEURA Robotics and NVIDIA: SAP is bringing AI into the physical world through cognitive robots and digital twin validation using NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint.

Deloitte Integration: Zora AI will integrate with SAP Business AI to create intelligent digital workforces.

AWS Co-Innovation Program: A new AI development program provides technical resources and credits for industry-specific generative AI solutions.

AI Foundation Platform Gets Major Upgrades

SAP's AI Foundation on Business Technology Platform now offers over 150 capabilities, including:

• Revolutionary prompt optimizer that eliminates manual prompt engineering
• Support for latest AI models including GPT-4.1, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, and Gemini 2.5 Pro
• AI Agent runtime and evaluation services

The prompt optimizer, developed with Not Diamond, automatically converts prompts for different models, reducing migration time from days to minutes.

These innovations represent a major shift toward AI-native business processes, with SAP positioning itself at the forefront of enterprise artificial intelligence adoption.

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